Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-04-01

oaiA kW e. ' tsGNA " Az L.
to go and prIng hIm III. l said l didn't
like to go. Tor ~ lwas RAINING. He gave
me 5 cents for street-chr fare. went
Tor Granda, bur he wau't at nome. l
came back to TraI6er's saiocn. He
there. / started to go home. Att
the corner OF the Sioux National bank
corner OF Pleroe end Fourth--l saw
seven or eight men, among them George
rreiber, Granda, Path, Munchrath and
Paul Leader. At that corner Trelber
said to me; ''Show Granda where Had |
dock lives" Granda and / went up
towards the courthouse and were gone
about q half an hour aud went lack.
Granda said he wouldn't whip the |
preacher, for there was too big a crowd
that would know about IT. w will"
said he, stay here a little time and then
go back and tell them we can't ind him."
When We went back to the or, IL
found there Lea .er, PIath, Treiber,
Munchrath, Leavitt, Peters and others l
didn't know. / didn't know Leavitt
then by name. Grand , asked for money
to get o drink. Plath gave G.anda rs
cents AMI he and | went to Ulmer's sa
1000 and g 1t q drink, and went back
where the fellows were. Then Treiber
SAID for me and Granda to go to the
Columbia house and ask Charley Eoer-
hardt il the buggy had come back. We
went towards the Columbia house and !
went in. / saw Eberhardt. He went
inside and sent o man out. l asked him
about q buggy. / know Fitzsimmons.
FItzsimmons wen from the Columbia
house to the livery stable, which is the
next building. He came back at onoe,
and l did see a buggy at the corner OF
Foufth and Water streets. l was there
about an hour. When I first saw
the buggy i was standing at the
east corner of Water and Fourth,
opposite the Columbia house.
Then I went down Fourth street. j
was at the pile of posts a while, right in
front of the Columbia house. When |
saw the buggy it WAS coming up west OF
Fourth and Water. | was at the corner.
Granda and I went up Fourth street and
saw q crowd come out OF Junk's.
Stopped on the corner, and Granda
struck off there down the street farther.
As we went up to Junk's on Fourth
we met men going west, right at the
alley. Paul Leader was in front, Leavitt
and another man, Grands, Treiber,
Arensdorf, Munchrath, Peters and Plath
and another man were in the crowd. l
went with Leader, aud the other fellows
came on 30 Water street. / saw John
Arensdorf there. He had on a black
ooat-a sack coat. Leayitt had q long
rubber coat. We went to the corner
the corner of Water and Fourth streets.
l went with Paul Leader south o little
on Water street. The other fellows
were on the corner. Arensdorf was
there. saw o man coming across from
the Columbia house. 1t was
Haddock. John Arensdorf then said
II don't want you drunk Dutch fellows
around Mr.. Haddock then came from
the west side of Water street. / was
about ten or fifteen feet from the corner
with Paul Leader. | was closest the
corner. Haddock came east. Arensdori
started up and crossed to meet him
Just AZ ArenHdorf passed Haddorck
and Paddock raised his hands and made
Arensdorf stood looking OF him a mo-
ment. and then stepped on west toyards
the bridge.
AT this point O'Connell stepped to the
space before the JUICY and in front of the
witness. and told him to 70 through the
motions OF the tragedy. Bismarck rose
and stepped towards O'Connell, and Jus,
as be passed him he turned and raised
his hand to o point in the rear OF the
left part OF the lawyers neck. and emitteo
the fearfully suggestive strident sound
himself which he had said Haddoef
made the moment after receiving thu
fatal shot.
Witness continuing: A%rensdorf wa.
a foot or two back of Handbook when ht
| Head Ha otn,d a Cnop,ank ~ two all
the preacher staggered, and then started
aud stepped toward the bridge. Henry
Peters vas o little behind Arensdorf
John Arensdorf was the man who sho'
Haddock. / know Arensdc1f and knoq
t he fred the shot. I only SAW Arensdor
, and Peters o moment after the shot.
J turned around and Leader was gone
/ started and ran after him. lar
through the alley TO Paul Leader,
hotel. Inext saw Arensdorg with Leader
j mex, day but didn't speak TO him. Tit
Monday after the shooting I SOW Arens-
dorf again ct Boercher's beer garden. ]
had seen Fritz Foiger that morning anc
was ct the beer garden too. At the beef
garden Arensdorf said he wanted TO SET
me. We went into the water closet ane
Arensdorf told me that he wanted me tt
!. skin out" He said il was better that
leave the country. I told hin
that i had no money and ]
/ couldn't leave. I said / couldn't leave
: my family, because I hadn't any
j money. Arensdorf said: How is that
{ George G-iaher gave You $I25 to sksn
| out with. Why didn't you go?" told
him that my wife took the money and
wouldn't give me any money. Arens-
dorf said that \ must skin out, that
must go the next. day, that it / got drunk
and if anybody talked hard with me ]
would tell all. He said he would give
me $I00 TO 60 with, and that Fritz Fol
! ger would go with me and take merin Q
buggy as far az Sallx, but that / should
not have the money till l was on the
way. / told him / would go. We die
not go next day because it wal raining
but we went the following day. We
went very early in the morning, and al
Salix Fritz Folger gave me the money
/ got on the cars there. I saw Treiber al
my housesafter the killlng--a day or sc
after the killing. Treiber gave me the
money there / mean the 1925. lsaw Hen
ny Peters here after the shooting. the
day / talked with Arensdorf. / left Sioux
City about a week after the murder. ]
left in the morning and went to Salix il
a buggy. Fritz Folger went with me te
Salix. We got to Salix about Cookbook il
the morning. Folger gave me money al
Saix, sos, at the depot, the same Frits
FoIger / talked with at the beer garden
The time / got money before Wal the
secon dday after the murder, in the fore